Clinical staff and rotating doctors
Whole cohorts changing post on the same day
Rotation day
A whole cohort moves, and access follows
Twice a year your clinical workforce changes post on a single morning. Access has to move with it. Clinical rotations, agency staff and contractors, without a reception desk queue.
Hospitals & Healthcare
Hospital access control for clinical rotations and bank staff
Rotation day moves hundreds at once
Who is on your sites
Bank and agency nurses
Booked shift by shift, often at a few hours' notice
Medical device and IT engineers
In clinical and technical rooms, often out of hours
Cleaning, catering, portering, waste
Everywhere, overnight, high turnover
What you are held to
Patient safety · GDPR · NIS2 for health
- Pharmacy, theatres, neonatal and records restricted to currently authorised staff
- Physical protection of the systems holding patient data, under NIS2
- Access matched to a current registration, and ended when the post ends
Where it breaks today
- Hundreds of clinicians change post on one morning and every badge is set up by hand
- Agency nurses share a bank card because issuing an individual one takes too long
- Honorary and student contracts expire on paper, and the badge keeps working for years
On rotation morning the choice is between a delayed ward round and an unauthorised one. Neither is acceptable, and both are caused by the same manual process.
Hospitals & Healthcare
Scenario
Rotation day. A whole cohort changes post
Several hundred doctors move ward, site and speciality overnight, and the wards expect all of them on the first round.
The rotation list is the trigger
The rotation file arrives weeks ahead and creates the identities, nobody queues at the reception desk on the morning.
Credentials ready before day one
Access is derived from the new post and the credential is issued in advance. The first shift is a working shift.
The old post ends the same night
Previous ward, theatre and drug-room access ends when the rotation date passes, without anyone collecting a badge.
Bank shifts follow the same rule
A booked agency shift creates access for that ward, for those hours. Which removes the reason to share a card.
What changes
- Shared bank cards disappear, because issuing an individual credential costs nobody any time
- Pharmacy, theatres and neonatal hold only the people currently posted to them
- Rotating out is the same event as rotating in. The leaver problem solves itself at scale
Compliance
The regimes behind this
Questions
Frequently asked questions
How does the platform handle rotation day?
The rotation file arrives weeks ahead and creates the identities. Access is derived from the new post, and the credential is issued in advance. Access to the previous ward, theatre and drug room ends when the rotation date passes.
Can we stop bank and agency nurses sharing a card?
A booked shift creates access for that ward and those hours against an individual identity. When issuing an individual credential costs nobody any time, the reason to share one goes away.
What about honorary and student contracts?
They carry an end date on the record itself. The access closes on that date, with no paperwork to chase and no badge being collected.
The first step
Start with 1 site and 1 population.
You judge something that runs on your own site. Your access systems and readers stay where they are. If it earns its place, we extend it site by site.
One siteOne populationYour readers stay